Islamic State’s Cruelty Was Not the Same as Military Might
IS could invent ever more gruesome forms of murder, but it could not make a fighter plane or win the lasting allegiance of the majority of Iraqis and Syrians.
October 27, 2017
Avraham Sutzkever’s Yiddish Winter Wonderland
Siberia magically upends a litany of misery for him and his people.
At the age of two, Avraham Sutzkever, the great Yiddish poet-to-be, was expelled by the Tsar’s army from his native shtetl along with its other Jewish residents. He then spent the next five years in the Siberian city of Omsk until, after his father’s premature death, he left with his mother for Vilna and as a young man joined the city’s Jewish literary scene. Today he is best known for the poems he wrote during the Holocaust and thereafter. But Dara Horn draws attention to his 1936 masterpiece Siberia, narrated by a child who stands in for the author:
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New EU-Sponsored Guidelines for Journalists: Report the News Only the Way We See It
And avoid writing about “sensationalist incidents involving migrants.”
A Biblical View of How America Should, and Can, Renew Its National Covenant
An antidote to the politics of anger and competitive victimhood.
Avraham Sutzkever’s Yiddish Winter Wonderland
Siberia magically upends a litany of misery for him and his people.
The Birth and Death of “Biblical Archaeology”
The difference between American and Israeli versions of the field.